RE: Re: BI / Reporting tools

Loaded question but I'll try to be brief.

The LIC, OS, and Licensed programs are proprietary. You need to pay for
them and most require a key.

That said, there are more APIs opened up inside IBM i than any other OS
allowing you to do most anything you need to do.

Outside of that with the Open source announcements recently virtually any
open source project can run on IBM i via PASE and the 64bit GCC compiler.

So aside from the fact that IBM i and its components are not open source,
you can run about anything you want within the environment.

So the better question is "what's an open system"? IBM i certainly falls
into the "open" category for my uses.

--
Jim Oberholtzer
Agile Technology Architects


-----Original Message-----
From: MIDRANGE-L [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of John
Yeung
Sent: Monday, April 18, 2016 2:39 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: Re: BI / Reporting tools

On Mon, Apr 18, 2016 at 1:57 PM, Rob Berendt <rob@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Doing so is often responsible for people migrating from an open system
like IBM i to an old proprietary legacy system like Dos/Windows.

Don't take this as a challenge, just an honest question. Well, questions:

In what way is IBM i an "open system"?

Is AS/400 also open, and just old and legacy; or is it proprietary in the
same way that DOS/Windows is proprietary?

Just trying to clarify terminology.

John Y.
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